Reed blasts Byrne on Kennedy treatment

Joe Reed, the No. 2 administrator of the Alabama Education Association, sent a scathing letter this week to Bradley Byrne, chancellor of Alabama's two-year college system, in response to a letter Byrne sent in July to former Bishop State Community College President Yvonne Kennedy.

In Byrne's letter, he wrote that Kennedy was insubordinate for not firing college administrator David Thomas, who has been convicted of a hit-and-run felony, and he stated that Kennedy would not be provided a post-retirement office on Bishop State's campus as had previously been agreed.

Reed opened his response by stating that Byrne should be ashamed of his behavior. "I hope that I will never again regard you with the utter contempt I felt after reading that letter," Reed wrote. Click here to read the entire document.

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